cinephile-27690 I love TOTW but not for what the movie is. The movie begins with 22 minutes of marching and then thee is speech after speech of how Hitler will "improve" Germany with his plan-which everyone cheers for. Little did he know he as planning the Holocaust. The reason I love it is because of how important it is. This is a document of our world's history. As horrible as it was, it must be remembered.I do recommend it for that reason.

Robert J. Maxwell It's 1935 in Germany, the year of the Nurenberg Rally, and in his Junkers tri-motor, wile a tuneful Wagnerian melody plays in the background, Hitler descends gracefully through the puffy white clouds like an angel in a Hallmark greeting card, come to tell the earth how the cow ate the cabbage.They really are impressive clouds too. Leni Riefenstahl knew her stuff. And as the Junkers floats across the city skies the melody changes to the more sentimental but still stirring "Ich Hab Mein Herz in Heidelberg Verloren." See? The guy is sentimental and sweet, just like the rest of us, with just as intense a sense of Heimat. Why, the Chancellor is here to bring us all together again.The upshot is that Hitler arrives and gives a rousing speech about the German people at a mass rally in a stadium designed by his chief architect, Albert Speer. It's magnificent. The background of the stage is draped with Nazi banners and the audience seems to consist of thousands of idolaters lined up in formation, who give boisterous cheers and Nazi salutes until Hitler begins his exhilarating pep talk, which I found boring and uninformative.But that's not what the movie is about anyway. The political content is subordinate to the splendor. Men in uniform march in endless columns, in synchrony in a way we never did in boot camp. The band plays, the drums beat, the flags are a symphony of motion, some of the action is filmed in slow motion. It's thrilling. Especially gripping is the sight of such young boys, no more than twelve years old, pounding away so grimly, so earnestly, on their drums, clamping their lips together, frowning with a grim determination to do -- well, something. They're too small to have a good grasp of what's going on, but they have all the ardor of cheerleaders at a high school football game.Those kids beating the drums, you've seen them before, especially one particularly energetic dark-haired boy. You've probably seen the torches and the flags too. "Triumph of the Will" is so evocative, so successful in capturing the atmosphere of NSDP members, and Riefenstahl has done such a superlative job of putting it on film, that clips of it have been lifted willy nilly and inserted into other films -- features as well as documentaries. This is one of the reasons it might seem familiar to us, in a way that it was NOT familiar but rather an astonishing spectacle to the Germans and to the world in 1935. To the world in 1935 it was a fervent and innovative display of nationalism and power.Riefenstahl herself had striking looks, an interpretive dancer and physical fitness buff, the Katarina Witt of 1930s German films, who had earlier starred in stereotypical German movies belonging to the genre called Mountain Movies. You make a dangerous climb to the top of the mountain and return the wiser for having done it. She wasn't very particular in her choice of mountains as it turned out, but this movie and the later "Olympiad", showed flawless physical specimens showing their prowess in slow motion and included such dialog as, "This Negro is dangerous," in reference to Jesse Owens. They brought her deserved world-wide fame. "Deserved" because she was such a damned good director. If, instead of Nazi propaganda, she'd turned out biblical epics like Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments," she'd be in the pantheon today.She was arrested after the war and then released because she'd committed no war crimes. She carried on with her photography and her movies and stuck with the subjects that had always held her in their thrall -- power and physical beauty -- among the Nuba tribe of Africa. She was 101 when she died.

AryanGeneral Hail NAZI , HAIL ARYAN RACE, HEIL Hitler, HEIL FUEHRER, HAIL SCHUTTZSTAFFEL, WE ARYAN RACE ARE THE TRUE AND JUST RACE IN THIS WORLD AND WE SHALL REIGN THROUGH OUR Righteousness, THOSE WHO ARE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO STAND IN THE WAY OF A TRUE WORLD, SHALL BE PERISHED BENEATH OUR IRON WILL TO MAKE RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THIS WORLD, THROUGH ATTRITION OR DECISIVENESS WE SHALL DESTROY ALL THE ENEMIES OF THE NAZI AND FUEHRER, AND SHALL MAKE A NEW WORLD WITH THE BANNER OF SS HANGING AT THE TOP OF IT AND COVERING EVERYTHING IN IT !!!!!!!!!!!The Triumph of will is an actual and living Proof of the Nazi Greatness ! the Power that Third Reich wielded and the Good and Just cause that they were using that power for !!! Let those who gaze with hatred to the truth i am preaching, be Blinded by the Light of The Nazi's Benevolence and Power. The people Know it, the World Knows it ! We Aryan race, the race of Just and powerful are the true Inherits of the God's Land and we shall reign with Justice and Honor and clean the World of the Taint that Israel and America, are covering it with, the taint of Evil Worship, the Taint of Abominational Sexualities and bi-sexualities , the taint of corruption in cultures and concepts of just and right and Godly ! we fight for the Justice and Power of the Creater, the God ! let those who cant bear my words downrate this Review or even remove this !! but The Right Words will always find their way to the ears of those who can hear !!! Hail Nazi , Hail Schutzstaffel , Hail Aryan Race !

thedecimator1337 This is not a thinking-person's horror movie, it's a story. About the rise of a nation which had the potential to be the greatest in history but instead chose to fail epically. Not spoiler marked because seventy years or so is the ultimate late arrival spoiler. Where've you been? As a movie, here are my ratings: Music: 10/10, just love the Königgrätzer March, among other great pieces. Aesthetic: 11/10, perfect uniforms and symbolism Quality: 5/10, fairly shallow but passable Depth: 7/10, intellect could use work but at least it has intellect unlike today's trash Overall 9/10. As a propaganda film, here are my ratings: Music: 11/10. Often gets my blood running swiftly, especially with the aforementioned march. There are some bits that don't appeal to me, but apparently they do to other people, therefore they are effective. Aesthetic: 11/10. Here it's in reverse. Not many people think much of the film's imagery, uniforms, etcetera, but I think it's among the best ever made. Paints a beautiful picture. If only its owners actually lived up to the image of heroism they painted of themselves. Quality: 2/10. It was a very effective film for swaying the masses, who are cowardly, unscrupulous, and easily manipulated via emotions. However, even though that's fun and all it should not rely solely upon that as a propaganda film. Logical reasoning for the intellect should also be painted finely However it fails as it chose to use purposely large lies instead of truth as its source of persuasive power. Depth: 5/10. Decent, goes a good way into murky waters even in its lying. I really like how each "actor" in the film plays himself or herself. Standard of documentaries. Overall: 5/10. Has all the makings of a good propaganda film but just didn't do it right. Of course it would help if its owners were right to begin with, but they chose not to be as well.